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摘要

An International Conference on Constructed and Riverine Wetlands for Optimal Control of Wastewater at Catchment Scale was jointly organized by the Norwegian Centre for Soil and Environmental Research and the Institute of Geography, University of Tartu, Estonia. The conference, held from September 29 to October 2, 2003 in Tartu, Estonia, was a concluding scientific meeting of the EU 5th FP RTD project PRIMROSE, and a meeting of the EU LIFE Environment Project "Sustainable Wastewater Purification in Estonian Small Municipalities," which was extended by the keynote papers from outstanding specialists in the field of treatment wetland studies and volunteered papers and posters. At the conference nine plenary talks, thirty-seven oral presentations, and twenty-seven posters by representatives from twenty countries were presented; twenty-nine papers were selected for this special issue of the Journal of Environmental Science and Health. In addition to presentations from PRIMROSE-project partner countries Norway, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Poland, and Estonia, contributions from Australia, Belgium, Canada, PR China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Spain, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America were included.